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M. STRAUS.

FURNITURE LEG SHOE.

No. 319,342. v Patented June 2, 1885.

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FURNlTURE LEG SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3719,3622, dated June 2, 1885.

Application filed March 28, 1884.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Max STRAUS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore city, and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Furniture-Leg Shoes, of which the following is a description.

Figure l is a plan view of a square form of furniture-leg shoe. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a circular form of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan View of a rectangular form of the same. Fig. 4 is a sectional View on line 00 a of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view on line y g of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention is to protect from wear the carpets of rooms in which fun niture having legs providedwith casters is located; and to this end my invention consists of a shoe or plate having a central socket in its upper face provided with opposite notches in its periphery to receive a caster-wheel, the top face of the shoe being also provided with an inclined plane or inclined planes leading from its periphery to the central socket for the easy passage of the caster-wheels to the central socket, and ribs to guide the casters into the socket.

Referring to the drawings, a represents a shoe or plate,which may be made of square, rectangular, circular, or any other desired form, and preferably has the outer edge of its lower face,which rests on the carpet of the room, chainfered to prevent wear of the carpet. 1) represents a socket formed in the upper face of the shoe. The periphery of the socket b is provided with opposite notches or recesses 0, having at their lower ends inclined planes 0, each leading from the lower end of the recess 0 to the bottom of the socket b for the easy passage of a casterwheel into the socket b, the opposite sides of the circumference of a caster-wheel resting in the opposite recesses c, which retain the caster in place.

Leading from the periphery of the socket b to the periphery or outer edge of the shoe a are arranged a series of inclined planes, (1, for the easy passage of the caster-wheel up said inclined plane into the socket. h represents ribs extending from the periphery of the socket between each pair of recesses c to the outer edge or periphery of the upper face of The ribs h it serve to guide the caster-wheels up the inclined plane (I and into (No model.)

employed, leading from the periphery of the socket b to the four sides of the shoe and provided with diagonal ribs h, for guiding the caster-wheel as it ascends an inclined plane into the opposite recesses 0 in the socket b.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a shoe, a, of circular form provided with a central socket, b, a single circular inclined plane, (I, being employed with guide-ribs h, each extending from the circumference of the shoe to the middle of one of the spaces between the two recesses c.

In order to prevent the upper part of the article of furniture having casters on its legs flOllI coming in contact with the wall of a room, I employ a rectangular shoe, as shown in Fig. 3, with one of its ends abutting against the wash-board of the room and its socket arranged in the upper face of the shoe, and having inclined planes (1 and guide-ribs near its opposite end, so that when the casters of the chair are in place in the socket the upper part of the chair will not be in contact with the wall of the room. The same result also could be obtained by securing a projection of any form to the rear end of the shoe, so as to bear against the waslrboard.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A furniture-leg shoe or plate, a, of any desired form in its outer configuration, and provided 011 its upper face with a socket, b, and an inclined plane or planes, cl, extending from the periphery of the socket to the periphery of the shoe, as set forth.

2. A furniture-leg shoeor plate, a, of any desired form in its outer configuration, and provided on its upper face with a socket, I), having opposite notches 0 in its periphery, in-

clined plane or planes (1, extending from the MAX STRAITS.

Witnesses:

SoLoN O. KEMON, A. M. DARRELL. 

